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The president’s decision to roll back protections is deeply misguided. The Environmental Protection Agency made a startling admission last month when it announced that many of the nation’s streams and wetlands would no longer be protected under the Clean Water Act, perhaps the nation’s most successful antipollution law. The agency said it could not predict...

How will Florida be impacted by climate change—not in 100 years, but in 20? The questions are addressed in the Florida Climate Outlook: a comprehensive, visual report on the near-term physical and economic impacts of climate change and climate policy in Florida.

QUEEN BESS ISLAND, La. — A Louisiana island that provides a crucial nesting ground for pelicans and other seabirds is being restored to nearly its former size after decades of coastal erosion and a devastating offshore oil spill 10 years ago. About 6,500 brown pelicans and 3,000 smaller seabirds cram their nests every summer onto...

As sea levels rise, people living in coastal regions will see floods. Most of this will take place in Asia. In the Philippines, climate change is no longer an abstract concept for those living near the coast.

Far too often, critical issues become siloed into conversations about winners and losers. Dividing everything important into political divisions is a sure way to resolve nothing. Sea level rise needs to escape the clutches of anyone who will use it for any purpose other than uniting us and coming together to rise to meet the...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday ended federal protection for many of the nation’s millions of miles of streams, arroyos and wetlands, a sweeping environmental rollback that could leave the waterways more vulnerable to pollution from development, industry and farms.

Four coastal Louisiana tribes that claim the U.S. government has violated their human rights by failing to take action on climate change submitted a formal complaint Wednesday to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Sea-level rise and coastal erosion are drowning tribal burial sites in South Louisiana, according to the complaint.

Residents of a sinking Louisiana island have until the end of the month to apply for a new home under a first-of-its-kind federal program to help people retreat from the effects of climate change. The state Office of Community Development set Jan. 31 as the deadline for Isle de Jean Charles residents to request resettlement...

A forum Tuesday at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux will focus on how the community can adapt as seas rise and wetlands continue to erode. The America’s Wetland Foundation will host the Coastal Communities Adaptation Roundtable. Open to the public, it’s scheduled for 9:30 a.m. to noon in the Student Union’s Bollinger Suite. “Today’s news...

There’s an ugly rumor making the rounds that sea level rise may cause our families to retreat from this special place we call home. Don’t believe everything you hear. This is not to discount the seriousness of issues that will continue to affect all of us. Without getting into the divisive politics of why, seas...